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Hello and welcome to the programme. On BBC Points West tonight: | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Fighting fuel poverty - a charity warns one in four of us will soon | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
be struggling to heat our home. Fitting like a glove - a Swindon | :00:22. | :00:30. | |
schoolgirl becomes the youngest in Europe to be given bionic fingers. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
I did not think that it would move as well as it does. I did not think | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
I would get as much good use out of Also tonight, the average age of | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
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farmers is now 60. How do we tempt the next generation onto the land? | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
And I'm afraid this patient will not make it. The doors of this | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
hospital will be closing for the last time because the BBC drama | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
Casualty has filmed its last scenes in Bristol. Get these medical notes | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
to Cardiff as soon as possible! Cardiff? Fetch and carry, fetch and | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
carry. Good evening. There's a chilling | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
warning tonight about the effect rising fuel prices are having here | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
in the West. Figures show that a quarter of us could soon be living | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
in fuel poverty. That means we spend more than 10% of our | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
household income on trying to keep warm. And as more energy companies | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
put their prices up, one charity here is warning of the dire effects | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
that expensive bills can have. Steve Knibbs reports. | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
The north Cotswolds - the very image of affluence and prosperity. | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
Hardly, you'd think, a place where people worry about keeping warm. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
With 61,000 people in Gloucestershire struggling to pay | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
their heating bills, it is often in areas like this where living and | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
transport costs are higher anyway, at fuel poverty can strike just as | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
hard as in the towns and cities. George Hill is on a state pension | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
and spends nearly 20% of it on heating alone. And this year's | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
harsh winter gave him some tough choices. It did get to the stage at | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
one point where we thought would we be able to turn the heating up, | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
because the oil tank was getting low and it was expensive. �300 a | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
time to half fill it. We wondered if we would get through it. That | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
was very difficult. So George is taking drastic action. His old | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
electric fire is up for sale and he's installed a log burner. He | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
claims it'll save him a quarter on his bills. But for others with no | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
alternative, expensive heating bills can have a dramatic effect. | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
You find that when fuel prices go up, people get colder, and in | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
vulnerable households, with elderly people or young children, that can | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
be bad for their health and well- being because people do not like to | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
invite people round to a cold home. Debt advisor Garry Mills is seeing | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
more people through his doors worrying about the prices rises. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
The energy companies blame wholesale costs but Garry says the | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
customer should take more control. We have got to say, excuse me, I | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
can get is more cost effectively elsewhere. Are you prepared to | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
price match or undercut to keep me as a customer? Everybody watching | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
this programme is a customer and it is about time the customers rose up | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
and said the customer is King. Charities are warning that there's | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
no room for complacency. The Centre for Sustainable Energy believes a | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
quarter of us in the west will be in fuel poverty by the end of the | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
year. Well, earlier I spoke to the MP for | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
Somerton and Frome, David Heath, who told me he has been raising his | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
concerns about the cost of fuel for years. I actually brought in a | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
private member's bill a few years ago to try to make sure that the | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
then Government did something about it. I am afraid that they decided | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
they did not want that bill at the time but I think it is a very big | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
problem and we have to redress that. You are pushing the Government to | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
help people protect their homes from fuel poverty. Is that the | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
issue or is it with the energy companies now? I think there are | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
three things. First of all, the price of fuel. And how you can make | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
sure that the tariffs are fair to the people that can least afford it. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Secondly, I think you have to do something about the basic housing | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
stock as well, to make them more energy-efficient. I think a lot of | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
houses used an awful amount of energy that people simply cannot | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
afford, through the walls, through the roof, through lack of | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
insulation. The third thing you have to do is to make it easier for | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
people to switch to companies which produce a better deal. At the | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
moment, the so-called Big Six energy suppliers very often are not | :04:50. | :04:59. | |
the cheapest tariffs on the market. A schoolgirl from Swindon has | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
become the youngest in Europe to be fitted with bionic fingers. Chloe | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
Holmes suffered septicaemia as a toddler and her hand was badly | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
damaged. Now her life has been transformed after her family paid | :05:07. | :05:17. | |
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for a new set of digits. Sabet Choudhury reports. I did not think | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
it would move as well as it does. I did not think I would get as much | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
good use out of it, but I did. A simple sentence which says it all. | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
15 year old Chloe Holmes has been given a new start in life. There | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
are some sensors inside. It moves because it senses the movement but | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
I don't really know how it works. Chloe lost her fingers as a toddler | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
when she suffered from septicemia after she contracted chicken pox. | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
And before the bionic fingers she wore this prosthetic hand. It made | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
her school life very difficult. Well, but not where it very much | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
because it is made of rubber. When I was writing, the ink used to come | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
off on it. And it did not move, so it was quite frustrating. Not a day | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
did not go by without tears coming or something because I could not do | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
much, if you know what I mean. People used to stare when I walked | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
down the corridor and then start shouting things, not very nice. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Chloe's family paid for the �38,000 hand. It's made by Touch Bionic in | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
Scotland. This is the 15 year old trying it on for the first time in | :06:29. | :06:38. | |
their labs a few weeks ago. It has lifted her quite a lot. It is | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
amazing what she can do with it. People used to stare for the wrong | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
reasons when we went out as a family and now they stared in | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
amazement. The next challenge for Chloe will be going back to school. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
I think I will get some staring but I will not mind because I really | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
like it. The summer holidays is chance now for Chloe to experiment. | :07:00. | :07:10. | |
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Doing those simple things she never thought would be possible. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Now, we all know we're going to have to work longer before we cash | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
in our pensions but everyone has to retire sometime. When to do so is | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
an issue for our farmers, most of whom are over 60. Their union's | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
trying to entice more youngsters into the business, as Dickon Hooper | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
reports. The land has been in my family for 100 years. | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
And now it's been passed down to Julian Ridge. He took me to see his | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
deer, which was very peaceful in the summer haze. I asked him about | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
his plans for the future now he's past retirement age. I really don't | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
know. It is a subject that we skirt round fairly frequently but we | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
never come too many conclusions. What about your children? We have | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
three. One is an army officer, one is a vet and another is a teacher | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
and none of them see themselves becoming farmers. It is not just | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
the farm equipment that has seen some good service. The average age | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
of the farmer in the South West is 60, according to the Farmers' Union. | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
They are trying to get more young people and apprentices involved | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
because with the rising population, there is growing food demand that | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
has to be met. They're working on that here, Cirencester's Royal | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
Agricultural College. Full to bursting they say, with | :08:37. | :08:45. | |
undergraduates, all with good job prospects. We see tremendous | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
opportunities worldwide for people going into agricultural subject and | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
food as well. I think we are looking for about 60,000 young | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
people to be skilled to go into agriculture. Massive demand for | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
skilled young people and tremendous opportunities. It is the world's | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
biggest industry. Back on Manor Farm, that industry never really | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
stops. But some farmers would perhaps like to. So is it time | :09:09. | :09:19. | |
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finally for that next generation to take over? | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
Thanks for starting your weekend with us. It's Amanda and Chris with | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
your Points West tonight.Ian will be here with the weekend weather | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
soon. And we are in Bristol where a group of artists are creating the | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
biggest ever street art project. You will have to wait a couple more | :09:38. | :09:48. | |
:09:48. | :09:51. | ||
minutes to find out how it turned out. We will be patient! | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
The cast of the BBC drama Casualty are filming their last episode in | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
Bristol today. The show's been made here for a quarter of a century but | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
now production is moving to Wales. It'll mean no more familiar | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
landmarks in the background but also a hit to the local economy, | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
�25 million a year according to the City Council and South West Screen. | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
Will Glennon reports. From the opening scenes of the very | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
first episode, Casualty and Bristol have been inseparable. And 25 years | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
after Charlie first appeared on the Clifton suspension bridge, actor | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
Derek Thompson will reluctantly be heading to Cardiff with the rest of | :10:20. | :10:30. | |
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the cast. It is the longest I have spent anywhere in my life. I now | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
consider myself to be an adopted Bostonian. In fact, my youngest boy | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
was born here and he is a Bristol that. I love Bristol. I still feel | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
sad that the show is leaving Bristol. To think that we are | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
leaving Bristol, it is bittersweet. At the same time we are excited | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
about the adventure we are about to take. Since 1987 the inside of | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Holby General Hospital has been a purpose-built warehouse in the St | :10:59. | :11:09. | |
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Phillips area. But Bristol's always been seen in the outdoor action. | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
The BBC decided to move production to Cardiff. It's where Doctor Who's | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
made and is now a highly regarded drama centre. It is not certain | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
Bristol, it is set in a different town which is supposed to be | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
anywhere in the UK. Stylistically it will be very similar. But it's | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
not just cast and crew. It's all the associated businesses that feed | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
off a year-long production. A recent report said it's worth �25 | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
million to the economy. The hotels that visiting crew and cast stay in, | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
taxis, eating in local restaurants, local crew spent money in local | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
shops. There is a ripple effect. You have the core amount of money | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
that grows and grows. So the director has shouted cut for the | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
last time in Bristol. Some memorabilia from the set is being | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
auctioned online to raise money for Bristol Children's Hospital, but | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
filming will continue in Cardiff. They're only halfway through series | :12:04. | :12:14. | |
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26. The hospital may be moving but Casualty will continue. Now Astoria | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
bravery against impossible odds. -- a story of bravery. The battle when | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
nine SAS operative store, best guerrilla army in the Middle East, | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
an army of 400 men, trained and armed by the Russians and the | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
Chinese. The year was 1972 and the country was Oman. If the SAS had | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
failed, then plans for a Communist foothold in the Middle East would | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
have succeeded. Oman would have been seized and with it the gateway | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
for 90% of the world's oil. The West could have been held to ransom. | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
Amazingly, it Roger up was one of the amazing soldiers involved. He | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
has written a book about it and he joins us now. This is the stuff of | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
movies, nine against 400, protecting oil and fighting the | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Communists. What can you remember about how it felt? This belief that | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
first. We never trained for that. Being SAS, you do not train for | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
infantry battles. To be rudely awakened at 5 o'clock in the | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
morning with 400 people coming at you, it kind of gives you age-old! | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
What did you do and how did you manage? It was strange. There was | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
not much panic. Everybody had their own job to do but we were thin on | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
the ground. One guy was firing the �25 a, another was firing the | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
mortar and I was firing a machine gun. We had an altar gun that | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
packed up after a bit. You would have thought the numbers would have | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
overwhelmed you. Yes, but we had our backs to the sea and we were | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
completely surrounded with no way out so we had to stand and fight. | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
Why don't we know about this even now? I know at the time it had to | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
be kept secret? It was kept secret and the war ended. We actually won | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
it. It took us five years and we went into that country and | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
Communists were ruling 90% of it. We liberated that country with less | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
than 200 soldiers in five years. is thanks to action like yours. But | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
you must have felt scared during this. As professionals, you get | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
into it and get working, and people often say that. But the job in hand | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
is so important. It is likely when uses breaking. You get concentrated | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
and you have not got time to think about it. Thank goodness people do | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
not shoot at us! Why have you decided to tell the story now? | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
believe there is an injustice done. The Fiji man fired a 25 pounds gun | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
over open sights for an hour on his own. The man that try to help him | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
was injured. Then his friend came to help him and he was only there | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
for 10 minutes and he took five rounds. You are trying to honour | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
them and you want special recognition for their work? Yes. | :15:19. | :15:28. | |
That is very generous of you and good luck with the campaign. | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
Holes appearing in our roads is a common problem but when one Points | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
West viewer sent this picture, we decided to dig a little deeper. | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
This is the hole that appeared in Oldville Avenue in Clevedon and | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
this picture of Cyril Derby shows just how deep it was. He could | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
almost get his entire arm down it. Cyril and his wife Carol tried to | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
get North Somerset Council to do something about it and then got in | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
touch with the BBC. Thankfully we can report that the hole has now | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
been filled in. And there are some unusual road | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
problems in Bristol too. Double yellow lines have been painted | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
right across a T-junction near the Clifton Suspension Bridge. People | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
living on Sion Hill are upset that tarmac's been poured over | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
cobblestone gutters and they claim contractors have ruined their | :16:13. | :16:23. | |
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conservation area. Now, football rivals Swindon and | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
Oxford meet for the first time in almost a decade this weekend. With | :16:29. | :16:39. | |
all the sport it's David Passmore. Hi. They've been waiting since the | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
8th December 2002. That was the last time the sides met. But the | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
passing of time has done nothing to reduce one of the sharpest | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
rivalries in the country. Kick-off has been moved to 1 o'clock on | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
Sunday and fans are asked to arrive early. Upwards of 100 officers will | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
be there supported by mounted police from the Thames Valley force. | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
The 3,000 away tickets have sold out and no tickets are on sale on | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
the day. 160 club stewards will be on duty. Special coaches and a | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
train have been laid on and there's designated parking for away fans. | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
But why have clubs 30 miles apart always been such fierce rivals? | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
Through the years, the games have been passionate affairs. Large | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
crowds with a police presence to match. The build-up to this game | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
saw vandals break into the Oxford ground and daub the initials STFC | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
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on the pitch last weekend. When people stop you in the town every | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
day talking about Oxford, Oxford... Swindon's new manager is used to | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
the passion of Italian football and has no doubt about how important | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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Sunday's game is to the fans. manager, I have to be cool. But I | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
will do even more that I have done before today to do my job properly | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
and prepare the best that we can for this game. I know what it means | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
for the fans. This was the last league match between the sides. | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
March 2001 and a 2-0 win for Swindon with a short break when | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
players were taken off the pitch after objects were thrown at the | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
Swindon keeper. Oxford's allocation of 3,000 tickets has sold out. Like | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
many, these fans can't remember a time when this fixture wasn't the | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
most important of all. The rivalry has been there since I was born so | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
it will always be there and will never go. In Swindon the view is | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
much the same. They chant that they hate Oxford, never Cheltenham or | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
Reading. Those who've studied the issue say it's enevitable that | :18:47. | :18:55. | |
rivalries are local. There is no point comparing yourself to people | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
on like you or completely irrelevant, Manchester United or | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
Barcelona. You can compare yourself to somebody that is like you, | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
against whom you can match yourself. In a way, you gain of pride not by | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
being the best team in the world but the best team on your patch. | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
an attempt to prevent trouble, the game has been moved to an earlier | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
time on Sunday and the clubs and the supporters associations have | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
appealed for fans to stay calm and enjoy the rivalry on the pitch. | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
The rest of this weekend's games are coming on the screen now. After | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
the confidence boost of winning their first game of the season, | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
Bristol City are back at Ashton Gate to take on Portsmouth tomorrow. | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Nicky Maynard's two goals earned the win over Leicester, and manager | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
Keith Millen is hoping his in- demand star striker will continue | :19:38. | :19:48. | |
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that form and help the side record a first home win. I think it shows | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
how important it is to us. It shows why a lot of people are after him. | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
They are not happy that he is in good form, fit and scoring goals. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Long may that continue. Across the city, Bristol Rovers are | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
hoping Joe Anyinsah recovers in time to play in tomorrow's game at | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
Macclesfield. He was injured in Tuesday night's win against | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
Northampton at the Memorial Stadium. Three riders from Gloucestershire | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
have helped Great Britain's dressage team win a first ever | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
European Championship team gold. This is Carl Hester from Newent who, | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
along with Laura Bechtolsheimer and Charlotte du Jardin, beat off the | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
challenge of Holland and Germany and broke the European record in | :20:25. | :20:35. | |
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the process. Some news Justine in the last few | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
minutes. Swindon Town has just signed a new striker, Liam Clarke | :20:41. | :20:50. | |
from QPR. He has signed a two-year deal. Heart of the press. | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
Never before has a local authority here given over a whole road to | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
graffiti artists. But that's what's happened in Bristol. It's the UK's | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
biggest street art festival. More than 75 people have spent the last | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
week transforming the rundown Nelson Street into what the council | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
hopes will become the city's newest tourist attraction. Jules Hyam is | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
there for us now. Hello. I have just stepped away | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
from the crowds to get my thoughts together. I have been trying to | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
work out how to explain how unusual this is but I have come up with the | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
way to explain it, hopefully. It is being paid for by the local | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
authority. That building there is a police station. I think it is time | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
to give you some idea of how unusual we have been hearing all | :21:32. | :21:42. | |
:21:42. | :21:45. | ||
week about how the artists have This is Nelson Street four weeks | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
:21:55. | :21:58. | ||
ago. And this was wednesday night. Cherry pickers, projectors and | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
spray paints. Some choose a freehand technique, ayering their | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
way to four-storey mural. Already the work was attracting the media. | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
Passersby stopped passing by and just watched. Why would a local | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
authority want to spend taxpayers' money creating this? It all goes | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
back to two years ago when an exhibition was put on at the | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
British Museum and 300,000 people came to see it. Decision-makers | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
that the council came to see street art as an economic driver. If you | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
want to bring in the pennies and the pounds, you bring in the | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
international street artists. from Los Angeles. I am not sure | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
what style you would call it, but I am mostly inspired by classical | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
older art. I do my best to try and reinterpret it and modernise it in | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
my own way. I name is Nick Walker. I have been painting for well over | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
:23:12. | :23:12. | ||
20 years now. This particular piece is a twist on a clockwork orange | :23:12. | :23:20. | |
logo. Of and then there is Inkie, the Bristol born artist who talked | :23:20. | :23:29. | |
the British -- Bristol council into letting him paint the walls. | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
This one was the first to go up and there has been even more going on | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
throughout the day. Inkie, it has taken a year to put this together. | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
How are you feeling? Very excited by what is going on. We have some | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
of the world's best artists creating the credibility the city | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
deserves. How is it to work with your legends? I have living legend | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
here today. Many of these people are known the world over in this | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
field and they would not have come here if it were not for the fact | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
that they have got the space to paint on. The city council has | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
arranged a lot of it and has put a �2,000 into putting his place at | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
the forefront of being a tourist destination. Will this really work | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
and the same way as that graffiti exhibition? I see no way that it | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
cannot because it has worked in Melbourne where it has been done | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
before. Is this the right way to spend �80,000? People might blanch | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
at that during a recession but we have not suddenly become a Third | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
World country. We are still spending on arts and events. All | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
the evidence from the festival two years ago, which had �60,000 spent | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
on it, was that had an economic impact of �15 million. It actually | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
kept some local businesses going during that period. �15 million | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
from Matt Craig Beattie exhibition. We will see how much this can bring | :24:56. | :25:06. | |
to the city. -- from that graffiti Now let's go to the weather. What | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
are we in for this weekend? It will be split, shall we say, | :25:12. | :25:19. | |
with the better of the two halves being Sunday. Yesterday was very | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
wet indeed. This was an unusual sight. It is called a supernumerary | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
rainbow and it is quite unusual. It is caused by interference of light | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
rays, not normal optical effects and it tends to occur only where | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
there are small, similar-sized raindrops. In some of you put that | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
on Twitter. There are outbreaks of rain about tomorrow that Sunday | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
should be dry with some decent sunshine. A complex story through | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
Saturday in the wider scheme of things. Weather fronts crossing | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
over three tonight and into tomorrow evening. As we get into | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
Sunday, and improving picture and high pressure coming in from the | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
West. Essentially we will find that for many districts, after a damp | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
morning, it will get better as the day wears on. There has been a fair | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
amount of hazy sunshine today. We have seen some shiny outbreaks of | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
rain getting closer to West Somerset. I think they will make | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
slow progress so it will be largely dry this evening. The cloud will | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
steadily increase throughout the night and will bring in some rain. | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
That will be until 9 o'clock this evening. Tonight will be milder | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
than last night, with temperatures in double figures. Through the | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
cause of tomorrow, that weather front is draped across the West | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
Country. A fair amount of patchy or showery light rain and some | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
moderate and heavy bursts as well. Then it will fade away, so the late | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
afternoon will be brighter. A window of opportunity. Later on in | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
the evening, a cold weather front will come in from the same | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
direction. I think it will show its hand later in the evening. | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
Temperatures will be quite you know that 19. Sunday looks better all | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
round. -- temperatures will be quite humid at 19. Temperatures on | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
Sunday up to 23. Take your pick but I pick Sunday. Bumper rainbow. I | :27:29. | :27:35. |